The City of God
The Confraternal Family
The Bonds and Bounds of Charity
Medical Care and Public Health
Instruction for This Life and the Next
Crisis and Reform
One of the book's greatest virtues is D'Andrea's minute attention
to the evidence; he makes full use of the wealth of records left
behind by Renaissance Italy's accountants and bureaucrats. . . The
book is well-designed and clearly written, suitable for upper-level
courses in Italian and early modern history.
*THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW*
D'Andrea succeeds very well in bringing out the special
characteristics of Battuti of Treviso. He displays a sharp eye for
detail, closely examines the social and political context of the
institution, and writes the kind of satisfying history that springs
from account and minute books rather than chronicles.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, December 2007*
With its clear presentation and broad-ranging topics, this work
makes an important contribution to the field of contraternity
studies, as it highlights the multiple significances of these
institutions in the centuries after their foundations.
*RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY, Spring 2008*
This lively and richly-documented study goes beyond social and
religious themes and directly addresses some of the key political
questions of the Renaissance: the relations of center and periphery
in the early modern state, the informal exercise of power in
subject cities, the construction of social order through charity,
medical care, and popular religion, and the relation of lay and
clerical elements in civic religion. Necessary reading for those
wanting to know what made the Renaissance city tick.
*ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY*
As lucid an account of confraternity life as one could hope to
find, this study lays bare the myriad ways in which religion
permeated the social fabric at the dawn of the modern age, and the
role it played in the creation of a new civic consciousness. Based
on meticulous archival research, Civic Christianity in Renaissance
Italy enhances our understanding of several topics at once, as all
great books do: the history of Venice and Treviso, and also the
history of medicine, popular piety, confraternities, urban poor
relief, and religious reform. A remarkable achievement. --
*Carlos Eire, Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies,
Yale University, and author of From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art
and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth Century Spain*
A valuable contribution...based on extensive research in an
unusually rich archive.
*SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL*
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